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Pippin friendica
So, I wanted to know what the music from this is (turns out the search term is "POKÉDANCE".) and I ended up on this take on it! The8BitDrummer's channel is pretty good, nice and positive, and fun.

Pippin friendica
I'm so glad I found Archive of Our Own and posted my (ongoing) Indigo Park fanfic there. Even after a few weeks of not having time to work on the next chapter, I still get occasional emails, like the one I got a few moments ago, saying things like "a guest left kudos on Trains of Thought" and it's a little mood bump every time that happens β€” even more so when someone leaves an actual comment.
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Pippin friendica
There's another fanfic there, Behind the Screen which I've been following since it was just a couple of chapters long which I love (it's now up to 166k words, pretty much novel length, and is supposedly going to be four times the length by the time it's finished). I keep wanting to do an audiobook-style reading of it but I have no idea if I should ask permission from the author first or just do it, or what. I do find it weird that for someone who doesn't like their own voice I do quite like reading/narrating stories and want to get better at it.
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Ysengrin, Dar Rushk, and an unidentified fursuiter in fancy armor posing for the camera at FC 2007

#FursuitFriday #Werewolf #Manticore

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R-slash-malicious-compliance. You love to see it. https://famichiki.jp/@jezebelkat/114078006906958798
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The fact that the majority of computer users have only 2 real options for browsers, Chrome and Firefox, and neither of them now takes a stand against selling user data, is the biggest selling point on us needing new options.

Google should have never been allowed to have as much browser share as it does.

Firefox should hear from every user that one of the main reasons we use their browser is they didn't sell our data.

And we need to support other browser makers. This needs to end.

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For #FursuitFriday, some photos taken of me at the Irishfurs photoshoot during Scotiacon 2025.
Pics by Zuki.
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Brewing up some trouble this #FursuitFriday with my @azakir and our dear friend Fahcs!

🧡 @selkiesuits
πŸ“· Zeke
🌍 Scotiacon 2025

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This #FursuitFriday as I'm ill. Harks back to when I was ill at Scotia, but wanted to go suit for the group photo.

So Toothless Kigu was deployed. As was Tootless plushie.

Only annoyance, I didn't have my badge by @blue with me to set it off perfectly!

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Saw a post go by where someone meant to say β€œself-hosted server” but instead wrote β€œself-hosed” server and yeah, I feel that.
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Free to print replacement faceplate and button for ALPS disk drive to make it fit in Atari ST/STe cases. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6963155 #atari #AtariST #retrocomputer #retrocomputing
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Matt Lacey mastodon (AP)
This is the best use for a 3D printer I've seen yet :D

Pippin friendica

Well, I've completed watching Disenchantment. Really really good β€” I need to watch it again. (And I'm not just saying that because of Jasper.)

Derek, a light-blue-skinned amphibian-boy with stubble and a coronet, has one hand on Jasper's head, holding him back.  Jasper is a smaller anthropomorphic bear-boy who is growling and trying to claw at Derek. A frame of 2D hand-drawn animation.

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Framework is trying to kick this off again. Their stuff is too pricey for my blood but I hope it catches on everywhere else.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmA6SLZnvZY
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After a tiring day of fighting evil, Flurrabell and Paco rest victoriously while congratulating themselves on their great teamwork.

Picture for Flurrabell
Digital. Procreate

Video process available to watch on the first comment on this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or on Patreon and Ko-Fi you can see the full video, download the full resolution, see my pictures and WIPs before anyone else, and you could help me to keep going with my silly job of drawing cute critters for a living, at subscribing at: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco or https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco

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Fancy a pint? 🍺

πŸ“· PurpleFoxCosmo

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Sounds good. Cheers!

Also loving the heterochromia.


The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.

IT IS TIME

"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."

COME

"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"

YES

"Fondly?"

I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE

"No, but you spend some time with them after, like now."

1/2

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pa27 mastodon (AP)
πŸ˜€ πŸ‘

Doctor: trying to do your MRI scan.
Windows: "hey, want to install candy crush??"

Plant operator: trying to change the conveyance speed down by 4% to reduce jams.
Windows: "hey... can you sign up for Microsoft 365 Family?"

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Ret mastodon (AP)

Embarrassed receptionist: "sorry, I don't know why it's being so slow today"

Windows: (loading 21 tiny embedded frames in the start menu containing ads for news channels and spotify)

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Ret mastodon (AP)

Warehouse worker: (opening BigShelf Pro WMS in the morning by typing "bi" in the start menu for the 291st time this year)

Windows: Bing dot com?
Windows: Birther movement - right all along? DodgyNews dot com
Windows: Bitcoin price?
Windows: ...

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juni mastodon (AP)
(fades in a Microsoft Edge notification, plays an obnoxious jingle 🎢 and launches a full-screen Windows 11 upgrade dialog)
Colin mastodon (AP)

@tilton I support and install medical software.

Windows is an absolute goddamn travesty these days and it’s indeed zero different at hospitals.

I want fucking out. I can’t take this shit anymore. I could rant for hours the shit I run into due to MS’ enshittification. Why though. Sigh. I just need escape from it. I can’t touch or support Windows-related shit anymore. It triggers me so gd hard now.

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I was told the cyberpunk dystopia would have a lot more neon lights and free-space holograms.
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Dekafox :therian: mastodon (AP)
Don't forget dragons and magic! But since we missed out on the Great Ghost Dance back in 2012...

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QotD: Me, when told anything resembling that I should just shut up and accept it regarding the Meta situation.
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Content warning: Politics

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Content warning: Robot eye contact

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I like accordions and I wish my personality is just that at a face value you can enjoy in isolation but I also like trans rights and I also really like LGBT and I really hate the Napoleonic Imperialism imbued by modern political movements and while I'm at it I really like the condemnation of fascism and all precursors to alienating your community and anyone to be honest, we are all humans except for me I'm a fox
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#NetZero economy booming in the UK…

β€˜The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security’

#Tories and #Reform proved wrong again. But will any of this be reported in the rightwing rags and on GBeebies?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/britain-net-zero-economy-booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security

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Allyn mastodon (AP)
what’s Gbeebies in this context? The Guardian?
More to the point, will Rachel from Accounts notice. Here’s where her desired growth will come from, so let’s revitalise the Green New Deal.
#UKPolitics #ClimateAction
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Martin Vermeer FCD mastodon (AP)
@KimSJ This has always been a nobrainer. I've seen the claim decades ago, and now it's happening. And that doesn't even consider the national-sovereignty aspect: it is not a good idea to be dependent on enemy petrostates on both sides of the pond.
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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

@martinvermeer @KimSJ

There is currently a ceiling on #NetZero growth…Labour understands it needs to upgrade the national grid, to ensure that new renewables can be plugged in, but also so it can cope with more homes and businesses running on electricity for warmth (heat pumps) and transport (EVs).

But what they don’t get is the scale of the skills shortage. We need to train and upskill people in every part of the country to work on renewables & retrofit.

MJ Ray mastodon (AP)
@KimSJ why repeat Reform fans' "Rachel from Accounts" jibe? Didn't think those were your politics.
#ukpol #ukpolitics
Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

@mjr @KimSJ

It is disparaging, but Rachel Reeves has been very economical with the truth about her CV. I don’t like the phrase, but before we dismiss it, it’s worth looking at who was referring to her in this way and why…

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02/15/for-how-much-longer-will-rachel-be-in-accounts/

MJ Ray mastodon (AP)
@KimSJ that sexist name-calling is not only disparaging, but playing into the "all politicians are awful, so let's elect an obvious grifter who will grift for us" (they never do) story that the neo-fascists use to get elected. Please criticise her actions while avoiding helping them portray her as an overpromoted minor office worker.


Pippin friendica
!Friendica Support Is there an easy way to find the timestamp of a post? Friendica seems to only show a "friendly" amount of time ago, which isn't helpful when a post was a few weeks ago and I wanted to check what date I posted it on. I don't see any way to find out the actual date and time of a post other than (a) try to find it on a federated non-Friendica instance, or (b) dig into the database. Having, e.g., a tooltip with the precise timestamp when you hover over the "ago" time would be nice. (I'm still on Friendica 2024.03 because I'm so busy/lazy, so if this has changed since then, sorry to have wasted your time reading this.)
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Michael πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ friendica (via ActivityPub)
You can hover over the date. This functionality is present in Frio from the start, I think.
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Pippin friendica
@Michael πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Well that's odd, because I was positive I'd tried all the themes without success. But I've just tried Frio on my 2024.03 installation, and it does indeed give timestamps in tooltips as shown in your screenshot. I must have had some kind of braino when I thought I'd tested them all, oh well. I much prefer Vier, though, which instead says "link to source" in its tooltip. Now that I know where to look, maybe I can compare the two themes, see how Frio does it, and make a patch for Vier to do the same. At least I now know it's possible! Thanks!
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Outside the library today I saw someone who was very visibly trans and absolutely dressed to kill, and now I want a T-shirt that says "not presenting, just slaying"
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Up until the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, I regularly attended large scale non-violent climate protests and witnessed other groups protesting on the streets of Norwich.

Those protests have dwindled to a trickle of mostly elderly people brave enough to walk out into the city silently holding a handmade placard.

This is not democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2025/feb/22/keir-starmer-labour-illiberal-laws-hard-right-authoritarians

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Nicole Parsons mastodon (AP)

The anti-protest laws were funded by the fossil fuel industry 's #AtlasNetwork .

It's fossil fuel funded fascism...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/10/britain-protest-laws-tories-climate-labour

https://www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/rishi-sunak-boasts-that-oil-funded-think-tank-helped-us-draft-crackdown-on-climate-protests/

https://thebulletin.org/2024/07/in-the-uk-a-dangerous-escalation-in-the-criminalization-of-climate-protests/

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17122024/shell-wins-injunctions-against-uk-gas-station-protesters/

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/climate-protest-arrests-environment-crime-activists/

The industry makes $3 billion a day in profit. It can afford to buy any legislation it wants from the corrupt.

It's time to save the planet & democracy, accelerate the switch to renewables & defund fascism.

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John_Loader mastodon (AP)
the trick to protest is buy tractors.

(Headline Prediction) "Apple to disable passwords for UK users. UK users will simply tap a button that says "honestly, it's me" before being allowed access to their account."
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UK Gov: That not highly effective age assurance!

Big derg paws for #FursuitFriday! πŸΎπŸ’œ

Rezz made by Roofur
Photo by @Kishi

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I love when transportation has snoots
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Professeur Renard mastodon (AP)
Good for you, Judge Reyes.

"What gadgets do you have for me, Q?"

"Here, you'll like this."

Bond examined the device. "It looks like an Amazon Dash Button."

"An AI-powered Dash Button. It will analyse what you need most, and deliver by drone."

Bond pressed it. A moment later, a drone put a resignation letter in his hand.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #AmazonHasBoughtBond

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Christopher Evans mastodon (AP)

when I first started reading this, I thought of John de Lancie as Q from Star Trek TNG. Instead of a drone, a white flash brings forth the resignation letter.

Now I’m thinking how cool it would be for him to play Q in a 007 movie.


Pippin friendica
This drummer's got some stamina.
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Pippin friendica
I've been watching Disenchantment at a rate of 2 or 3 episodes a day for a while now and I don't know what I'm going to do when I run out of episodes (which will be soon now)! Definitely loving it.

Dear every news website. It doesn't LOOK LIKE I'm using an ad blocker. I am ABSOLUTELY using an ad blocker. I just want you to know this. You don't have to pop up the stupid ad blocker thing anymore.
Rest assured, I am absolutely blocking your ads.

Cheers,
Xoa

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Pippin friendica
Ugh. Today did not go well. I thought it was going well, I managed to get my bike's side-stand greased so it (hopefully) won't be such a (literal) pain to manipulate with my left boot. Then I got entirely ready to go for a ride to my old home, check some things, collect post, get more stuff ready to bring, etc. Packed my bags, got all my gear on, ear plugs in, GPS running, pushed the bike out of the garage (very difficult, I noticed), did the pre-ride checks, and discovered that the chain is tight. And not just slightly tight, extremely tight. Barely any play at all. So tight it's surprising it hasn't snapped. Must be what's making the bike so stiff to push by hand. Only recently I cleaned, adjusted and lubed the chain after working the kinks out of it, and I'm sure I got it just right, certainly nowhere near as tight as it is now. But now it's far too tight. Had to abandon my ride, didn't get anything else done today, feeling annoyed and out of sorts and useless. Maybe I'll redo chain maintenance tomorrow an see if I can get it right this time. Or maybe the chain's just knackered - it is a little rusty after all. This kind of thing makes me wonder why I bother.
Pippin friendica
I redid the chain adjustment, and wow it was far too far out. I don't know what I did wrong, but the chain's kinked and rusty and horrible and I think it's going to have to be replaced. I replaced the chain and sprockets myself maybe 10 years ago so it's lasted pretty well, I expect (I've done just over 30k miles since I bought the bike, not sure how many before I replaced the chain). I don't know if I'll do it myself again or take it somewhere to get it done. I was quite pleased to have done it myself (even bending the stupid front sprocket washer like you're supposed to, which is a right pain to do), and I'm not entirely sure if I want to do it again.

Pippin friendica

Stage show: *has a visual effect/illusion*

Pepper's ghost: It's me. It's always me.

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